The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-10
GREENSBORO BUDGET.
THE CREAM OF THE WEEKS NEWS
FROM THE CITY OF FLOWERS.

-~eful to Winston some
"ish' " Facts that Ten'
,4,,4,, correspondence Of Tie Sentinel. 8.
nnrs.ss.,,,. \. c., FEB. 7. 1874 Jew
yests age some Of the ef d;versifyine
Danfille tef the necessity :ow of the
the interests Of that place, In ~
heavy preponderan of colored labor o..
white, and accordingly they projected and
built, and have kept in operation, two OF
three large cotton mills,
The community, no doubt, now sees the
expediency Of such move, and it is only
question Of tirhe, when all other great to-
bacco making s+assrs will see the same
thing, and especially so in these latter day
labor strikes and labor troubles.
The organic and radical differences 81
Anglo Saxon and African will not down.
legislate as we may and talk as we will,
The preponderance just referred to must be
met and neutralized by more conservative
element. This can and should be done by
.,,. establishment of cotton mills. Let the
.ots.es, towns look to it.
70 once had cotton factory.
pod on what is now called
m in the Northern part of
Belle Mead ayentiey l., IT
the town-erectest 50 % y -:
Umphrey's, grand father OF = r. - af
zen, Mr. H. FL. Tate. The man "''o' ~.
cotton goods was suspended = ,ea's %
he death of the Y,snnriator
Within the last decade the buiia ing haa
been used in part for tobacco factor. anu
part for grinding Sunlac leaves. In t.. Us
degenerate condition it was struck about ten
years ago by ightning-not long after,
possibly the same year, the roof was ignited
by a spark from the Sunlae grinding engine
and burned down.
TOBACCO FACTORIES
have not resumed work yet. Leaf dealers
taking most ofthe stock, shipping to Durham
and Winston markets. All grades bring fair
prices Fine wrappers, cutters and smokers
bring fancy figures.
Not much plug manufacturing will prob
ably be done this year-resident employees
leunging around Ioose-old manufactured
stock bringing good prices
J. X. Hall & Co. have commenced max
ing cigars.
Breaks been light for the past week.
WHOLESOME DOSE
was administered to a half dozen young
black street roughs last week. They had
been making things hideous with onion
IL II
mayor, with very good sense, sentenced
them to $500 fine and costs each-to be kept
in Jail till it was paid, or they might be
liberated on having sound fogging, well
laid on in presence of policeman. 1t is
said their "Guv'nors" put on the hickory
about right
There is a power of temporal salvation
in hickory. Judge J. R. Bulla says it is
the greatest civilizer known.
Guilford county is so heartily tired of
expensive litigation growing out of petty
larceny cases that she would unanimously
vote for a whipping post.
GOOD BRICK
One or two old buildings here are made
being made any where at this day coarse
gray sand composition that has been Burned
until many of the bricks have been glazed.
These old houses were put up 40 or so years
ago, and the brick being laid in honest lime
mortar, are as near everlasting as any thing
of artificial make up.
The demand for good brick is, however, |
being well met by Mr.. D. N. kirkpatrick, |
who is operating with material on North |
Buffalo Creek bottom, one mile from town. |
Mr.. K. is very solid man, just the sort of |
one you would suppose capable of building
a substantial wall. He now has two or three
large contracts to fll-business houses in |
the place. He has been in the business Is |
years; will keep 80 laborers employed this |
year, and will furnish brick up in the mil |
lions. The clay is taken from the edge of a |
creek bottom, an alluvial soil mixed with |
the native red. sThe superior quality and |
size of the brick, large lot of which are |
now berng used to lay the basement floors
and pavements of the new u S. building,
will commend them at once.
Bae FRUIT TREE NURSERY.
MI. Jno. Van Lindley, proprietor of the
Pomona Hill Nurseries, two miles from
town, at the Salem Junction, has just been
Interviewed, and this is about the size of it,
to-wit: Bigger nursery than any two in the
State; employs in all one hundred hands
the year round; 200 acres in nursery stock
and orchards :: Llants 100 bushels of peach
seed every year the plant, real estate, &C.,
worth over $4,000; sells between three and
four hundred thousand trees annually gross